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George H.W. Bush in intensive care with “stubborn fever”

Bush was in guarded condition and on a liquid diet that took effect with his transfer to the ICU, but McGrath could not offer more details about the reasons for the liquid diet.

Doctors were initially treating him for bronchitis and a lingering cough. More recently he had been undergoing physical therapy in preparation for returning home. He developed a fever mid- to late last week and began experiencing other complications that McGrath described as “a series of setbacks.”

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gophergirl. Good luck keeping the current President away from the funeral. Not a just world, but in a just world you would be right. I’m most interested in Billy Jeff’s speech..given their later relationship.

gophergirl. Good luck keeping the current President away from the funeral. Not a just world, but in a just world you would be right. I’m most interested in Billy Jeff’s speech..given their later relationship.

Illinidiva on December 26, 2012 at 7:37 PM

Oh I know – it would just be so wrong and so fakey.

I actually think Billy Jeff’s speech would be touching as they have become friends I believe.

About a week before the 1988 Presidential election, I attended a rally at the invite of the local state rep(Chi Far South ‘Burbs). I had turned 18 roughly a week before and was all gung-ho about casting my first vote. As the rally was breaking up, my host asked me if I wanted to meet the Bushes. Of course I did! They were both very nice to me. Sure-some of it was politics-but there was more to it than that. They both just crossed me as very nice people. Though I ended up voting for Perot in ’92(sorry!)my opinion of the Bushes hadn’t changed.
It still hasn’t.
Get well soon, President Bush.

Obama already preparing eulogy which will be all about his Christmas vacation in Hawaii.

Mark1971 on December 26, 2012 at 7:08 PM

“President Bush made a lasting mark on the world, particularly on the continents of Asia, Europe, and North America. And I’ll never forget, on a magical summer vacation with my family, the continental breakfast in the Best Western lobby — coffeecake with red and then yellow and then purple jelly in the center. In the same way, that coffeecake left an indelible impression on me. It was some good coffeecake.”

The Greatest Generation is passing so quickly, and the country seems to be passing with it.

petefrt on December 26, 2012 at 7:48 PM

Except that they weren’t the “greatest generation”.

They were the generation that elected FDR … FOUR TIMES. The man was practically the “King of America”. I’m often reminded by my mother that many people actually PRAYED to FDR. This is the generation that turned it’s back on self-sufficiency and individual enterprise and started this nation down the road to “nannydom”.

Winning a war … doesn’t make them the greatest generation. They didn’t even do a good job in raising their kids … and the proof in that is the 60′s anti-war movement lead by college youths.

They killed Hitler – sure. But they also started us down this horrific road into the economic abyss.

This doesn’t mean I don’t respect those war vets though – because I do. However, I don’t buy into the “greatest generation” BS. And BS it is.